The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.
The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.
Marriage equality changed life for people.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time.
Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.